In the Interest of L. A.

Ray, Judge.

The father of now one-year-old L. A. appeals from a dispositional order of the Juvenile Court of Walton County in which the court ruled that the child was deprived as to him. The father contends that the court based its ruling on facts that were not in evidence, improperly shifted the burden of proof, applied the wrong legal standard, and supplanted Georgia law with its own judgment. For the following reasons, we vacate the finding of deprivation as to the father and remand with direction.

As a threshold matter, we note that the appellee’s brief indicates that, subsequent to the…